{"id":188535,"date":"2010-09-08T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/08\/i-was-wondering-when-someone-would-do-this-2\/"},"modified":"2010-09-08T21:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T02:32:00","slug":"i-was-wondering-when-someone-would-do-this-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/08\/i-was-wondering-when-someone-would-do-this-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I Was Wondering When Someone Would Do This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a.imageshack.us\/img265\/8513\/3008hybrid41003techj898.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"375\" \/>I had been wondering when someone would combine the fuel economy advantages of a hybrid with the fuel economy benefits of a diesel.<\/p>\n<p>Well it&#8217;s Pugeout, whose <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2010\/08\/23\/peugeot-launches-3008-hybrid4-worlds-first-production-diesel-t\/\">3008 Hybrid4 stakes out this ground<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In typical French fashion, their hybrid system is kind of offbeat, the 163 hp turbo-diesel engine drives the front wheels, with a 37 hp electric motor driving the rear wheels, with the road serving to keep the two drives in sync.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how it shapes up efficiency wise, it would appear that regenerative braking applies only to the rear wheels, but it does allow for the car to function in 4 wheel drive mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been wondering when someone would combine the fuel economy advantages of a hybrid with the fuel economy benefits of a diesel. Well it&#8217;s Pugeout, whose 3008 Hybrid4 stakes out this ground. In typical French fashion, their hybrid system is kind of offbeat, the 163 hp turbo-diesel engine drives the front wheels, with a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1139,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}